Cómo medir el uso de registros en OpenCL

I noticed the Nvidia Visual Profiler for CUDA prints a line that shows register use:

Register Ratio = 0.75  ( 24576 / 32768 ) [48 registers per thread]

Is it possible to generate a line like that in OpenCL?

I have not seen any OpenCL way to query the number of registers, or the use of those registers.

preguntado el 27 de noviembre de 13 a las 01:11

That is implementation dependent, since OpenCL is designed to abstract the user as much as possible from the device. For the nVIDIA specific case you can use -cl-nv-verbose at compile time to give you the register usage in the Build Log per thread. (Then you have to do the math to see the total register usage) -

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As mentioned by DarkZeros it is implementation defined. And for a very good reason.

OpenCL does not make assumptions about the architecture, thus there is no general way of defining a single register ratio, let alone making any predictions based it. As an example on AMD HW you have 2 kinds of registers. Scalar and vector registers. They are disjoint in a sense that they spill independently etc.

In CPU the situation is again completely different and the compiler can even combine different work-items into a single thread.

To analyze AMD HW you need to use http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/heterogeneous-computing/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/ and the included kernel analyzer and for Intel you need to use http://software.intel.com/en-us/vcsource/tools/opencl-sdk

respondido 27 nov., 13:10

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